Chapter 43: CH 43
Naruto rolled his eyes, "...That you steal from your super-hot sister..."
Kankuro finished his sentence, "...That I steal from my super-hot sister!" Kankuro blinked and retracted his statement, "No! Wait! Take all of that back!"
A grinning Naruto looked at the puppeteer, "What? The 'you steal make-up part' or the 'your sister is super-hot part'?"
"Both! My sister isn't hot!" Kankuro felt a glare from behind him from Temari and deadpanned a look at Naruto, "Ugh... damn you kid..."
Naruto chuckled and decided to save Kankuro from his fate, "Yo Temari-chan, how close to Suna are we? I'm kind of on blind auto-pilot up here."
Temari lowered her ill intent towards Kankuro and looked over at the leader of the makeshift squad, "We should be right on top of the village any minute now." Right on cue as they reached the top of a dune a massive dome-esque structure came into view, "And here we are."
Naruto let the others take the lead from this point on as fighting a slew of pissed off foreign ninja due to a misunderstanding didn't really appeal to him at the moment. As they arrived at the opening he noticed the faint glares from the guards and rolled his eyes, 'Woohoo... Trading one village's glares for another, and I can't even kick anyone's ass here or I'll start a war.'
They made their way into the city leading Naruto along. Kankuro turned to get his attention, "Hey, the first thing we should do is let Baki-sensei know we made it back. I'll go find him, you can go with Temari and Gaara to our house until I get sensei."
Naruto shrugged, as the fact that there currently was no Kazekage meant that he couldn't really go straight to his office and give him the information on the treaty, and the council wasn't just going to be called at the drop of a hat for something that wasn't an emergency. He decided that waiting was cool.
The blonde foreigner nodded and followed Gaara and Temari as they made their way through Sunagakure to their home. Naruto eventually ignored the reaction that the citizens of Suna were having towards a Konoha shinobi in their village and took to a pastime that could draw his attention for the remainder of the trip, the 'watch Temari walk and not get caught' game. He had to admit, Jiraiya did teach him something useful besides Rasengan on their search for Tsunade.
The ever useful advice from the super-pervert was, when caught peeking at a girl in the street do not look away as if you weren't looking at her, make eye contact instead. Usually guys like Naruto and himself would end up staring at girls that were kunoichi, a side-effect of living in a ninja village, and they could sense when they were being watched, lying like you weren't looking makes it worse, but letting her know you were looking, just not letting her know what exactly you were looking at is a very good way to get your looks in, and Naruto, being an old hand in espionage under Danzo had a killer poker face. Temari could tell he was looking at her, but the fact that whenever she looked back at him to call him a pervert he was already looking into her eyes ended up silencing her and making her quite flustered at his serious gaze.